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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

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The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

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Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

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Mysteries are due to secrecy.

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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

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It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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Innovations, which are the births of time.

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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

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Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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